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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

James , that is really an excellent political commentary.  Seriously 
.....bobford


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--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> 
> You still naively think that. As far as inflicting his own
> interests on the  rest of us, Bush was the right hand punch and Obama is 
> the follow-up left.  The  old coal miner song 'Sixteen Tons" contains the 
> couplet:
> 
 "I've got one fist of iron, the other of steel
>  If the right one don't get you, then the left one will!"
 
> Bush, like of all his ilk, bought his own schtick.  He really believes that 
>  the only way any of us can have beans on the table is if they tinkle down 
> from  the monstrously wealthy above us.  When you protest about his 
> largesse to his  wealthy buddies, he blinks and stares and says you are
> trying to take away the  source of succor, the ONLY source, from the poor.  
> After all, if you bridle  the rich, there will be nothing to tinkle down on 
> you and you will be ruined.   That's idiotic of course, even evil, but it 
> is what the Bush's of the world earnestly believe.
 
> That's the right hand blow.
> 
 Obama believes his own schtick as well (and so far, it seems you believe his 
 schtick).  The only reason some people are poor is because
> the rich have too  much.  If we just took some of that stuff from the rich, 
> there would be plenty  to give to the poor, the old 'divide up the pie' 
> ploy.   History and reality  firmly remind us that this is not true.  Once 
> you start sticking your finger in  to someone else's pie, they stop baking 
> pies.
> 
> All jibbing aside (for this post only) and being straight for once, set 
> aside all the 'yes we can' and 'change the changes' and 'he's a decent man' 
> and all  that empty rhetoric.  What is Obama going to do?  From what
> we've seen so far  it is a rehash of the worst of the New Deal and the 
> Great Society.
> 
> That is, by Bush (and ilk) facilitating the worst of the
> greedy instintcs of the American people, he has delivered us an almighty 
> right hand blow with his  fist of iron.  Now, Obama facilitating all the 
> worst of our dependent and  slothful instincts, is winding up to give us an 
> almighty left hand blow with his  fist of steel.
> 
> The only bright spot in this is that as the Obama administration undwinds,  
> perhaps we sill at long last look up from our punch drunk
> haze and say with  bloodied lips, "Enough of this!" and quit this
> left-right destructive punching we've experienced our entire lifetimes.
> 
> 
> James